GRIFO DI TANCREDI
(active 1271-1303 in Florence)

Triptych (detail)

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Tempera on panel
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

The central panel is focused on the death of St Ephraim of Syria, with St Gregory of Nycea reading the funeral service, and with other saints and desert hermits either traveling to the funeral, shown at the bottom, or witnessing the vision of four angels carrying his soul to heaven, shown at the very top.